A view from the tower looking up East St Helen Street

A view from the tower looking towards the Old Gaol.

The Sanctus bell in the tower dating from 1641.

A carved stone face on the spire.

(Thanks to Mark and Brian for these pictures from St Helen’s Church.)

I saw somebody waiting anxiously at the church door for the arrival of the wedding party. There were a lot of events called off because of the snow.

Start of the school holidays and Abingdon has finally got the snow most of the rest of the country seems to have been reporting in recent days and weeks.

We woke to the suprise of snow – which got deeper and deeper throughout the morning.

On the last Saturday before Christmas there were a fair few people in town – perhaps not wanting to venture further to places like Oxford or Reading on such a day.

Work has been underway over the last few days to stabilise the war memorial.  A special resin has been pumped into the soil beneath the structure to fill in the holes. This will hopefully mean a more drastic operation will not be necessary.

Work to refurbish the area around the memorial should now be able to go ahead.

Two fire engines were called at about 8:30 this morning to put out a fire in St Helen’s Mews – just up the road from us.

(Thanks to E for sending me the picture.)